1211 Avenue Quotes & Sayings

It puts things into perspective when we realize that people can live without the luxuries we grow accustomed to having. — Frankie Rayder

Public officials insult our intelligence and our goodwill when they paint rosy pictures about budgets, jobs, bipartisanship, and transparency, and alter their positions on issues simply to keep collecting their paycheck by never disagreeing or disappointing anyone. — Wendy E. Long

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep. — Kaye Gibbons

Ink marks the page/where you execute your will like a doe announcing an/ox-stern mate with a single, bleary blink. — Melissa Lee-Houghton

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words
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"You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now. — Norton Juster

They'll say, 'He never recovered from that breakdown and this was the result. It had to be the breakdown
not even he was that dreadful a novelist. — Philip Roth

The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while the other lives in self-loathing misery. — Joel T. McGrath

When she talks to Tripp, something nice happens inside of her: a vibration, a thrum. It's as if a tiny wind chime is suspended inside her soul, she thinks, and his words are the wind that makes it ring. — Mary Amato

Silence is not just the absence of sound: there is a sound called silence. — Haruki Murakami

Madoka: I think it's because of your wish to protect me all this time that I am what I am now. And it's that "me" who has finally found an answer. So please ... trust me. — Magica Quartet

Deviants and monsters ran the camps where families were sent up the chimney or turned into bars of soap, but they would have been powerless without the clerks who sat anonymously behind typewriters and gave them bureaucratic legitimacy. — James Lee Burke

Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is why a poem speaks not of ideal life but of actual life: the angle of a window; the reverberation of streets, cities, rooms; shadows along a wall. — Sophia De Mello Breyner Andresen

It dims the brightest spirit, to stare into the dark. — Julie E. Czerneda

In order to be great, you just have to care. You have to care about your world, community, and equality. — Katori Hall

Some people think or expect that you should make the same kinds of art forever because it creates a convenient narrative ... I want my work to embody my inherent contradictions. — Kiki Smith